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<td class="v">3:1</td>
<td>To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:</td>
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<td class="v">3:2</td>
<td>A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;</td>
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<td class="v">3:3</td>
<td>A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;</td>
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<td class="v">3:4</td>
<td>A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;</td>
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<td class="v">3:5</td>
<td>A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;</td>
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<td class="v">3:6</td>
<td>A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;</td>
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<td class="v">3:7</td>
<td>A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;</td>
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<td class="v">3:8</td>
<td>A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.</td>
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<td class="v">3:9</td>
<td>What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?</td>
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<td class="v">3:10</td>
<td>I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.</td>
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<td class="v">3:11</td>
<td>He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.</td>
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<td class="v">3:12</td>
<td>I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.</td>
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<td class="v">3:13</td>
<td>And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.</td>
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<td class="v">3:14</td>
<td>I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.</td>
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<td class="v">3:15</td>
<td>That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.</td>
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<td class="v">3:16</td>
<td>And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.</td>
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<td class="v">3:17</td>
<td>I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.</td>
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<td class="v">3:18</td>
<td>I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.</td>
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<td class="v">3:19</td>
<td>For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.</td>
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<td class="v">3:20</td>
<td>All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.</td>
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<td class="v">3:21</td>
<td>Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?</td>
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<td class="v">3:22</td>
<td>Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?</td>
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